1963

Other News From 1963

Ron Davis is manager of Northern Commercial Store.
Following the success of his first LP "Yukon Gold", Al Oster releases "Yukon Ballads" featuring history and legends of the North.
With the keen interest in the large iron ore discovery north of Mayo, Dr. Aro Aho creates the concept of the Northern Development Conference in Whitehorse. Guest speakers included Nobuhiko Ushiba, the Japanese Ambassador to Canada, V.P. Wadsworth of CIBC, and Al Pike of United Keno Mines.
Ted Colyer, a grade ten student at F.H. Collins, wins the Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous Poster Contest.
President of Porter Creek Association Stan McCowan speaks at the opening of the four room school in Porter Creek.
Bea McLeod succeeds husband George as President of the Yukon Fish and Game Association.
Socony-Mobile enters into an exploration agreement to work in the Eagle Plains area.
The first Polio Oral Sabin Vaccine Program is successfully implemented with 40% of Yukoners taking it.
In February, Gwen Carswell is crowned Sourdough Rendezvous Queen.
Dave Porter is named Whitehorse Board of Trade President with Dr. Bill Buchan as 1st VP and Bob Cousins Sr. as 2nd VP.
NVK Wylie is appointed Crown Prosecutor succeeding Ralph Hudson.
Yukon's first annual Drama Festival is chaired by Bonnie Garvis and ends with honours shared by Whitehorse and Fairbanks.
Four RCMP Officers are killed when their plane crashes in Carmacks. On board are Pilot K.M. Laughland, Cpl. Asbil, Cst. Malcolm, Cst. Annand.
Northern Affairs Minister Arthur Laing visits the Yukon by way of the coast to Skagway and then by the White Pass and Yukon Route train to Whitehorse· Carcross oldtimers, Patsy Henderson and his wife greet Arthur Laing when he visits Carcoss.
Glenn Harris, who was head of Dawson and Hall Contracting, leaves for Vancouver.
Yukon Territorial Council asks Ottawa for the creation of a new position in Yukon---that of Senior Legal Advisor---so legislation could be drafted in the Yukon. C.P. (Perry) Hughes is appointed Legal Advisor.
Jim Cameron is elected Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous Chairman---succeeding Rolf Hougen.
The Hougen Santa Train takes hundreds of youngsters to McRae and returns with Santa.
86 year old Harry Leamon dies. In 1962, he had unveiled the cairn at the Discovery Site on Bonanza Creek. He came to the Yukon from England in 1897.
Marg and Rolf Hougen's 5th child Greta is born.
Under the leadership of Rolf Hougen, the Yukon Research and Development was formed. In the absents of any economic development department in the Yukon Government, the institutes first function will be "to promote the economic development of the Yukon and to predict the likely economic and political development ahead, enabling us to set goals".